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Spec he done drownded now," excitedly yelled one old auntie to a broad shouldered darkey who was running to the bank. Then as both boat and Boyton swept by, they could hear her say: "Dere's de onliest man ebber I see dat'll let a fellah human drownd afore his eyes. Him de wickedest man in de worl'."
A pusson dat is hunted don't like de light. Dah dat'll do. I kin see whah you is, en dat's enough. I's gwine to tell you de tale, en cut it jes as short as I kin, en den I'll tell you what you's got to do.
"He's sparkin' some gal, Miss Sue; dat's what ails him," she said one evening as she knelt on the sitting-room hearth to kindle the first fire of the season. "Dey ain't but two t'ings onder heaben dat'll keep a man f'om eatin'. One's a woman, t' other is lack ob food." Judge Hollis looked over his glasses and smiled. "Who do you think the lady is, Melvy?"
He took the crisis calmly. "Jes' wait," he said to a neighbour who had stopped at sight of the moving-out. "Wait till I get dat ere goal on de mahket. I'll bull' a mill dat'll drive dis yer mill out o' d' business. Den I'll done buy back dis yer ol' home." But the next day, when the unexpected happened, when builders began to tear down his house, the enormity of his deed dawned upon him.
"Come, girls," Nyoda called cheerily, "'Fire's gwine out, time to sing 'Mammy Moon' and then go home." She poked the last embers of the fire into a little blaze, and the light and the lively measures of the song took Oh-Pshaw's mind off the gurgling water. "Cross my heart, Mammy Moon, Termorrer I'll be an angel coon, I'll be a chile dat'll make you smile, Good o-l-e Mam-my M-o-o-n!"
Nex', you'll go 'long away to Sent Louis, en dat'll keep him in yo' favor. Den you go en make a bargain wid dem people. You tell 'em he ain't gwine to live long en dat's de fac', too en tell 'em you'll pay 'em intrust, en big intrust, too ten per what you call it?" "Ten percent a month?" "Dat's it. Den you take and sell yo' truck aroun', a little at a time, en pay de intrust.
"Why, didn't you just tell me that mammy left you twenty dollars?" "Ur yes'm in her will. But I got ter go an' sign de will an' dat'll cost me fifty cents." "That's a peculiar sort of law." "Yas'm. I didn't like dat law myse'f an' I told 'em ter 'peal it, but da wouldn't." "Well," she said, arising and starting toward the house, "as you are so honest and industrious, I'll get it for you."
I boun' dey holds a confab and says: 'Le's make Mars William Pemberton er judge, and dat'll settle it. Does you have to go way down to dem Fillypines, Mars William, or kin you judge 'em from here?" "I'd have to live there most of the time, of course," said Billy. "I wonder what de Gubnor gwine say 'bout dat," speculated Jeff. Billy wondered too.
"Aun' Peggy look' at de head-hankercher, en run her han' ober it, en sez she: "'Yas, dat'll do fus'-rate.
"I have given you permission, go." The breakfast was a silent one. After it was over, and the door had closed upon the grim master of the house as he went back to his books, Hagar said, "Don't ye let nuffin make ye downhearted, honey! De Lord'll help ye, ef yer Uncle Dick won't. 'Tain't de might nor de money dat'll do eberyting, chile. All 'pends on whether de Lord's on yer side.
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